Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics</em> is the first comprehensive exploration into the field of ecolinguistics, also known as language ecology. Organized into three sections that treat the different topic areas of ecolinguistics, the <em>Handbook</em> begins with chapters on language diversity, language minorities and language endangerment, with authors providing insight into the link between the loss of languages and the loss of species. It continues with an overview of the role of language and discourse in describing, concealing, and helping to solve environmental problems. With discussions on new orientations and topics for further exploration in the field, chapters in the last section show ecolinguistics as a pacesetter into a new scientific age. This <em>H</em><em>andbook</em> is an excellent resource for students and researchers interested in language and the environment, language contact, and beyond.</p> <p><strong>PART I: Languages in their social and individual environment</strong></p><p><strong>A. Linguistic and biological diversity: minority and majority languages, endangerment</strong></p><p><strong>and revival</strong></p><p>1. Biological diversity and language diversity: parallels and differences</p><p><i>Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and David Harmon</i></p><p>2. The ecology of language contact: minority and majority languages</p><p><i>Albert Bastardas-Boada</i></p><p>3. Language endangerment and language death: the future of language diversity</p><p><i>Suzanne Romaine</i></p><p>4. The Economy of language ecology: economic aspects of minority languages</p><p><i>Alwin F. Fill</i></p><p>5. Language Evolution from an ecological perspective</p><p><i>Salikoko Mufwene</i></p><p>6. Ecological aspects of language planning</p><p><i>Robert B. Kaplan</i></p><p>B. Language Contact (bilingualism and multilingualism) and contact languages</p><p>7. Individual and societal bilingualism and multilingualism</p><p><i>Sabine Ehrhart</i></p><p>8. Linguistic imperialism and the consequences for language ecology</p><p><i>Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas</i></p><p>9. What creolistics can learn from ecolinguistics</p><p><i>Peter Mühlhäusler</i></p><p>10. Ecosystemic Linguistics</p><p><i>Hildo Honorio do Couto</i> </p><p>PART II: The role of language concerning the environment (biological and ecological)</p><p>A. The role of language in creating, aggravating and solving environmental problems</p><p>11. Positive discourse analysis: re-thinking human ecological relationships</p><p><i>Arran Stibbe</i></p><p>12. Using visual images for showing environmental problems</p><p><i>Anders Hansen</i></p><p>13. Investigating texts about environmental degradation using critical discourse analysis and </p><p>corpus linguistic techniques</p><p>Richard Alexander</p><p>14. The pragmatics of metaphor: an ecological view</p><p><i>Jacob L. Mey</i></p><p>B. How environmental topics appear in texts and in the media: ecological and</p><p>unecological discourse</p><p>15. Lexicogrammar and Ecolinguistics</p><p><i>Andrew Goatly</i></p><p>16. The treatment of environmental topics in the language of politics</p><p><i>Mai Kuha</i></p><p>17. Eco-advertising: the linguistics and semiotics of green(-washed) persuasion</p><p><i>Hartmut Stöckl and Sonja Molnar</i></p><p>18. ‘Global warming’ or ‘climate change’?</p><p>Hermine Penz</p><p>19. Media reports about natural disasters: an ecolinguistic perspective</p><p><i>Martin Döring</i></p><p>C. How do language and discourse transport ecological and unecological ideas?</p><p>20. The discursive representation of animals</p><p><i>Guy Cook and Alison Sealey</i></p><p>21. Euphemisms for killing animals and for other forms of their use</p><p><i>Wilhelm Trampe</i></p><p>22. Overcoming anthropocentrism with anthropomorphic and physiocentric uses of language? </p><p><i>Reinhard Heuberger</i></p><p>23. Ecolinguistics and place-names: interaction between humans and nature</p><p><i>Joshua Nash</i></p><p>PART III: Philosophical and transdisciplinary ecolinguistics</p><p>24. The ethics of scientific language about the environment</p><p><i>Brendon Larson</i></p><p>25. Language, ecolinguistics and education</p><p><i>George N. Jacobs</i></p><p>26. The micro-ecological grounding of language: how linguistic symbolicity extends and</p><p>transforms human ecology</p><p><i>Sune V. Steffensen</i></p><p>27. Transdisciplinary linguistics: ecolinguistics as a pace-maker into a new scientific age</p><p><i>Peter Finke</i></p><p>28. Religion, language and ecology</p><p><i>Todd LeVasseur</i></p><p>PART IV: New orientations and future directions in ecolinguistics</p><p>29. Ecolinguistics in the 21st century: new orientations and future directions</p><p><i>Alwin F. Fill and Hermine Penz</i></p>